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For anyone working in digital marketing, it can be a challenge to keep track of the multitude of AdWords conversions conversions from view through to call conversions. Metric names and definitions can change, appear and disappear periodically and the AdWords Help Center has a lot of content to sift through. Knowing how AdWords campaigns convert is an essential part of digital marketing. Along with retargeting, AdWords conversion metrics are one of the best ways of increasing overall conversions. In this post, we’ll try to bring some clarity by summarizing what we know about the conversions found in AdWords. On top of the metrics listed below, AdWords users can also define their own custom conversion events and actions. However, this post will focus on a group of selected standard conversion metrics available to all AdWords users.

For any digital marketer, it is extremely helpful to navigate among a whole bunch of metrics that are collectively referred to as conversions. These metrics can be found in advertising platforms, site tracking solutions and even backend databases that store, for example, offline transactions. We will however be limiting this post to only discussing online conversions. Knowing how conversions are defined and applied across different advertising platforms is instrumental in understanding what insights they offer and in what contexts they are relevant.